The Economy of Tea

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After a first glimpse at Indonesian history, mostly on how tea came to it and how the Dutch implemented different agricultural policies (https://teaconomics.teatra.de/2014/06/24/an-unexpected-journey/), it is time to see if Indonesia was such a big tea producing tea country and what happened to it. As for …

Indonesia as one the biggest tea producer (in numbers) before World War II? When I read this in one of The Devotea’s posts, I was quite puzzled and I started to dig into this topic. According to Wikipedia and the FAO, Indonesia was in 2011, …

Yunnan… Yunnan? Yes I know, you know everything about this region and its teas. But let me surprise you. I am not going to talk to you about this but rather about a game named Yunnan, a game about tea, trade and merchant houses (yes …

All it took for me to think about this topic was one ship. If only this was true, it would make a good story but the truth is that I came across the topic of this Swedish East India Company (or SOC in Swedish) through …

Tradition is something that binds people together. Sometimes it makes sense when you look at it from an historical perspective but some other times, it amazes those that look at it. As far as tea is concerned, traditions are part of it since it …

I know it is probably quite strange to publish something about a country that is going to get under the ever cautious eyes of Mr @thedevotea himself and that @lahikmajoe wrote about. What is even worst is knowing that in 2009, with a mere 0,21 …

Obviously, Richard III had no clue about tea otherwise he would never had asked for a horse. In my case, I asked for tea but since I am no king, I only offered an island, the island of Sylt. For those of you that are …

We live really interesting times. Thanks to the Internet I can chat with people from all over the world about tea or any other topic I might be interested in. I can also find a lot of surprises while looking for other things (which is …

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose To summarize it in a few words, this books is the story of how Robert Fortune stole the secrets of tea for the British East …